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We welcome the new year with hope for peace and progress for all in Mindanao.
It is good to anticipate more good news in 2009 for the “Land of Promise”.
Here is one: MindaNews is selling unique 2009 Mindanao calendars featuring photos by Bobby Timonera.
For a glimpse! (Photo grabbed from www.mindanews.com)
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The Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Central Committee has issued a five-point declaration on the resumption of talks with the Philippine government.
MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim issued the statement dated December 26 but released to the media on December 27.
The points are as follows:
- “Before the GRP-MILF Peace Talks resume, there must [...]
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While praying for silence in the battlefields, Bukidnon Bishop Honesto Pacana called on both government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to keep on talking and never to allow times of silence in the peace process.
Pacana said the silence of the guns is not enough unless there is continuing dialogue between the [...]
Filed under: Bukidnon, Freedom, Governance, Human Rights, Indifgenous Peoples, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mindanao Media, Mindanao's communities, Mining in Mindanao, Nature and Environment in Bukidnon, Peace Process, Philippines | Comments Off
That the informal peace talks between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is due to resume soon offers a reflection in our role as informal observers of the peace process that gained hold, then lost it somehow.
The MindaNews report GRP, MILF ‘informal talks’ to start ‘possibly’ by Dec. 22 didn’t quite [...]
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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has named Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Rafael Seguis as chair of the new government panel that will resume peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), reports tell us.
But what I think is a striking reaction to this news is a comment from Prof. Abhoud Syed Lingga, executive director of the Cotabato City-based [...]
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6TH BIMP-EAGA GAMES
Mindanao, Palawan win golds in swimming, athletics
BY CHARLES RAYMOND A. MAXEY
Of Sun.Star Davao
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM—Mindanao struck for two more golds in swimming, while Palawan harvested a pair in athletics as the two Philippine contingents finally got their momentum going in the 6th Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines-East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-Eaga) at the Aquatic Center [...]
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Magugpo Pilot Central Elementary School jins dominated the taekwondo event at the close of the First Mindanao Children’s Games, Sunday afternoon(Nov.16), at the University of Mindanao-Matina campus.
The Tagum City-based bets bested second placer Davao Wisdom Academy and third placer Ateneo de Davao of Davao City in the over-all medal count.
Mary Claire Parenas led Magugpo in [...]
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Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro wants to approach peace with a “strong dose of practicality, pragmatism and political realism” as he questioned the approach of solving the root causes of conflict” because “has any society been able to solve the root causes of conflict?”
He told the 8th Mindanao Island Conference of the Provincial Board Members League [...]
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IT’S all systems go for the First Mindanao Children’s Games (MCG) basketball competition that kicks off on Friday to Sunday at the University of Mindanao (UM) Matina Gym.
MCG project director Joseph Encabo, who led the coaches’ meeting at the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Mindanao Satellite Office yesterday, said 13 teams will compete in the three-day [...]
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Peace education is such a dynamic subject to teach at the university.
Chiza approached me for help to update the syllabus given to her by her superiors at Bukidnon State University over the break. One night we missed a favorite TV show just to gather and review the syllabi and lesson plans of previous lecturers [...]
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Since last month, I started publishing the Bukidnon Our Home blog (formerly Bukidnon My Home).
So far I am enjoying it and slowly it has gained traffic. I was contemplating whether I should continue a strain of posts that offered only the good news. The reason of doubt is I feel that Bukidnon people from around the world [...]
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Film actress, TV host, product endorser, fashion model and mother Angel Aquino shares her life, her passions and her unforgettable return to Mindanao in the latest issue of m. (Life and Living in Mindanao). A CineMalaya Film Festival Best Actress awardee, Aquino was once referred to as the “Ingrid Bergman of Asia” by a renowned [...]
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The BIMP-EAGA Friendship Games on November 28 to 30 will be the main topic on Tuesday morning’s meeting at the Philippine Sports Commission-Mindanao Office.
In the afternoon, the topic will be the Mindanao Children’s Games that is scheduled on November 14 to 16 at the University of Mindanao-Matina Campus.
PSC Mindanao head Joseph B. Encabo will preside [...]
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“There is only one Mindanao”.
We don’t have a Mindanao with two faces.
But the “one face” is scarred in some parts, ruined in another, healing in most parts, and mostly growing.”
I got into this reflection over the weekend when asked in an informal forum on whether there are two Mindanaos.
I said [...]
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Mindanao can kiss its hope for a Brunei-funded halal food processing venture here goodbye. This after our ASEAN neighbor has decided to develop a new deep water port with export processing facilities for halal food.
Brunei has just awarded the development of Pulau Muara Besar, an island off the coast of the eastern tip of the [...]
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(NEWS) “The future appears gloom and bleak,” Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri told the provincial board Thursday citing that the debacle of economic difficulties is real and could not be ignored.
Zubiri has proposed a P1.06 billion-2009 budget to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan but vowed to keep budgetary controls and prioritization of expenditures amidst the treat of [...]
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The Philippine Eagle Foundation has announced its plan to release two new eagles into the wild of Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park in January 2009.
This is despite the death of a Philippine Eagle named “Kagsabua” (unity) in July 2007, which it released just months earlier.
“What happened to Kagsabua is not a stumbling block,” a PEF [...]
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Congratulations!
The organizers of the Second Mindanao Bloggers Summit in General Santos City did it.
MBS2 was a huge success looking at parameters such as number of participants, media mileage, impact, and preparations.
Bongga ang food, presentations, and gimik, and I heard the tour was fuhhhhn, too!
OK pud ang hosting, including the choice of masters of ceremonies.
We stayed in East [...]
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Best wishes to all Mindanao bloggers who are attending the 2nd summit at General Santos City starting today.
I would not be able to make it to the Tuna Capital of the Philippines to attend the conference. I am confident though of its success following last year’s inaugural summit held here in Davao City.
With the likes [...]
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The better way to teach journalism in campus is to train them to write for life.
Perhaps, that’s a motherhood phrase.
What I really wanted to say is to go beyond competition mode.
The holding of competitions to test the skills of school children on campus journalism might have worked to a certain point.
But [...]
Filed under: Access to Information, Blogging and Bukidnon, Bukidnon, Education, Freedom, Life in the Plateau, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, People Power, Philippines | Comments Off
I will miss the 6th National Surfing Open this year from November 18 to 23 in Lanuza, Surigao del Sur. My friends and cousin have been planning the trip for months now. I guess they will have to go without me. I intend to test my new board. Next year t…
The lack of medicines in Bukidnon provincial hospitals and health stations has been blamed on failures in the bidding process, more specifically to the Capitol’s low approved budget for contract (ABC) or price index.
It was reportedly pegged at 2004 rates, a provincial legislative inquiry has discovered.
This seems a simple problem of public policy. But what [...]
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Traveling to communities have brought me to many experiences —mostly encounters of acquiantances.
You just don’t get to meet a person or group of people, you get to meet and have a chance to be in touch with their culture, their history, and their varying experiences.
The different-ness and uniqueness at the point of my contact with [...]
Filed under: Access to Information, Bukidnon, Every Day Mindanao, Governance, Human Rights in Mindanao, Life in the Plateau, Lumads and Mindanao, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Nature and Environment in Bukidnon, Philippines | Comments Off
The Bukidnon Forest Incorporated has initiated its clearance process to cut down trees in its industrial forest plantation project in Bukidnon. Read news report here.
This must be subject to scrutiny especially viewing it from the firm’s reported dismal record of reforestation since it started operating in 1989.
The firm might be good in cutting but are they as good [...]
Filed under: Agriculture, Bukidnon, Economy, Environment, Governance, Indifgenous Peoples, Life in the Plateau, Local Governance, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Nature and Environment in Bukidnon, People Power, Philippines, business | Comments Off
(27 October 2007) – Online journal writers or bloggers from Mindanao were urged to go beyond writing about personal matters and instead use their internet platform to help promote peace and understanding in Mindanao.
Speaking to at least 60 bloggers at the opening ceremonies of the 1st Mindanao Bloggers’ Summit, organizers and resource speakers took turns [...]
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When I first heard of the theme of the up and coming Second Mindanao Bloggers Summit I felt it is something worth blogging about.
It is indeed a practical topic in a time when blogging is already considered a force to reckon with.
This is especially true in a time when Mindanao continues to experience unpeace and [...]
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The Bukidnon tribe is seeking endorsement from the city government of Malaybalay for its Daraghuyan ancestral domain claim over at least 4,700 hectares inside the Mt. Kitanglad Range and Natural Park. Bae Inatlawan Adelina Tarino, head claimant, said the city government’s endorsement is the last requirement for the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) [...]
Filed under: Access to Information, Art and Culture in Mindanao, Bukidnon, Burma, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Governance, Human Rights, Indifgenous Peoples, Life in the Plateau, Local Governance, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, People Power, Philippines, Women, business | Comments Off
Bobby Timonera based in Iligan City reports for MindaNews that Maranaos call on thge United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Conference to help end war in Mindanao.
In a rally in Marawi City on October 2, his MindaNews report said that at the end of the month-long Ramadhan, Maranaos there staged a rally right in [...]
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I feed on words and the elements of composition. Writing news is my bread and butter. And I go to the field spending my meager resources to get the facts myself in an effort to get it right.
I may not be the best in what I’m doing, but I have always tried to do and [...]
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The Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has agreed to consider Bukidnon’s request for consideration in the approval of environmental compliance certificate (ECC) for projects based in the province. Read full report here.
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A man serves as a balancing load to a sack of grains loaded in a pay for hire motorcycle (habal-habal) traveling along the highway in Casisang, Malaybalay City.
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Yep, if you’ve been around this block long enough you know that Southisms.com was born on a July.
And so was I.
You can’t blame me for loving the month of July. This month has been packed with so many things I hardly have time to go online and type one of ‘em posts for the birthday [...]
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Photo courtesy of http://morofilm.blogspot.com
My friend Jun Macarambon, who co-wrote “A step for my dream” had their film officially selected in this year’s Cinemalaya, inevitably the most prestigious film festival in the Philippines. I haven’t seen the film myself, but the fact that it made it to the festival should keep everyone’s heads up. [...]
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